January's reputation for cold and snow is well deserved, but it can also deliver tornadoes and damaging atmospheric rivers.

Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a new bill in November known as the Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act, which would require NOAA to establish a new ...

At any given time the Earth hosts three to six of these rivers, which typically deliver as much water as the Mississippi ...

More rain and snow are expected to slam into the West Coast this week as multiple storms brew over the Pacific.

"The strong winds and precipitation linked to atmospheric rivers can significantly impact the upper ocean, potentially impacting ocean dynamics and ecosystems over larger spatial scales and longer ...

(NOAA via AP) This Dec. 10 ... creating dangerous conditions, due in part to an atmospheric river and developing bomb cyclone. Ski resort operators in the Northeast watched their snow turn ...

The billion-dollar disasters include 17 severe storm events, four tropical cyclone events, one wildfire event and two winter ...

(NOAA via AP) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. East Coast is due for a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather that will be rainy, windy and potentially dangerous, due in part to an atmospheric river and ...

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center had placed ... While California took the brunt of the storm's atmospheric river, the Pacific Northwest felt the effects of the passing low-pressure center as ...

Jan–Nov 2024 was the warmest such period on record—2.30°F (1.28°C) above the 20th-century average. According to the #NCEI ...